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Did you notice that?
Is it cold in here?:
That's the way I took it.
Loki:
--- Quote from: ankhtahr on 13 Sep 2013, 07:16 ---(and I hope his last name wasn't really "<LastName>")
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Reminds me of that one spam mail we got once which literally ended with the words "Yours, YourName".
Storel:
--- Quote from: ankhtahr on 13 Sep 2013, 07:16 ---Well, I'm more worried about what the name implies. Christian on its own is a common German first name, but together with Teophil/Theophil, which means "loved by god", well, that definitely means something. And the name sounds very old fashioned.
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"Teophil/Theophil" (loved by God) is the Greek-roots version of the German name "Gottlieb"; the Latin-roots version is "Amadeus". That's why Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart turn out to be the same person. (Similarly, Theodore and Dorothea/Dorothy both mean "gift of God".)
And Johann Sebastian Bach's youngest son, also a composer, was named Johann Christian Bach. Wikipedia says he "is noted for influencing the concerto style of Mozart."
So my guess would be that whoever named his/her kid "Johann Christian Teophil _______" may have done so in homage to their favorite Bach and the man he influenced. But that's just my guess.
(There were actually quite a few members of Bach's family who became composers, though none of them were quite as famous as old J.S. Bach himself. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, the aforementioned J.C. Bach, and Anna Magdalena Bach may be the best known. At least, they're the main ones I've heard of.)
KOK:
Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart is what he was baptised according to Wikipedia.
Redball:
--- Quote from: Storel on 14 Sep 2013, 03:24 ---(There were actually quite a few members of Bach's family who became composers, though none of them were quite as famous as old J.S. Bach himself. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, the aforementioned J.C. Bach, and Anna Magdalena Bach may be the best known. At least, they're the main ones I've heard of.)
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J.S. Bach wasn't famous at first, as this fictional anecdote reminded me: In the 20.1-volume series from which the "Master and Commander" movie was made, Capt. Jack Aubrey and physician Stephen Maturin are the main characters and also pretty good amateur musicians. Between voyages during the Napoleonic wars, in England circa 1800, Aubrey greets Maturin with some sheet music in hand. "Did you know London Bach had a father!?" "Most people do." Aubrey had been looking through music in a store and chanced on some chamber music in moldy condition. Other music by JS Bach had rotted, as I recall.
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